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Entries for March 2006

03/31/2006: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Gran Marcha A Huge Success from LA Times The Gran Marcha is what people are calling the protest last Satuday...03/31/2006: Urban Archaeology - Sawin's Pond Cleanup Moving Forward? from Watertown TAB & Press It appears that the cleanup of Sawin's Pond may be...03/24/2006: Breaking News - Here is a link to the text of the immigration bill I referred to in my previous post. It is...03/24/2006: Breaking News - Students Walk Out, Protest Proposed Immigration Laws from LA Times and Telemundo LA I turned on the TV this morning...03/22/2006: Asshat of the Week - Asshat Follow-Up: Text of Secondhand Smoking Ordinance from City of Calabasas, CA As promised, the link above will take you...03/22/2006: Fraud & Conspiracy - All Your Fingerprints Are Belong To Kansas from Kansas City Star Next time you get pulled over in Kansas, officers...03/22/2006: Breaking News - Buddha Boy Is Back?!? from BBC News Ram Bomjon apparently met with some of his followers near his home village...03/22/2006: Criminally Absurd - I Weep for the Future of Mankind from Duluth News Tribune Teachers at nursery schools in Oxfordshire, England, have asked...03/17/2006: Asshat of the Week - Smoking Banned Outside In Calabasas, CA from ABC 7 Los Angeles The city council of Calabasas, CA wins the award...03/14/2006: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Doctor Who Has A Posse Dept.:American Premiere Friday @9PM on Sci-Fi!!! from The Sci-Fi Channel As many of our longtime...03/13/2006: Breaking News - "Buddha Boy" Has Disappeared! from http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/12/060312073150.7l3arbf5.html" target="_blank">AFP When we last heard about the so-called "Buddha Boy" Ram Bomjon , he...03/09/2006: Arcanum - "The DaVinci Code" On Trial in England from BBC News Right now in England, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, two...03/06/2006: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Nice Marmot: A Report From Lebowski Fest West 2006 from LebowskiFest.com "Over the line!" "Do you see what happens, Larry?...03/03/2006: Breaking News - Harry Browne, R.I.P. from Reason Magazine Two-time Libertarian Party Presidential candidate and author Harry Browne died earlier this week. He...03/29/2005: Fraud & Conspiracy - Hey, Look Over There from Wired Conspiracy theorists and civil libertarians, fear not. The U.S. government will not use radio-frequency...03/28/2005: Arcanum - Rich Aucoin Lays Smack Down from Weekly Dig Part Weekly Week , part Village Voice, all Phoenix slayer, the Weekly...03/25/2005: Technologica - Plug It In! or, Someone Finally Listened To Me from Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems Cyberkinetics' systems provide the ability to sense...03/18/2005: Criminally Absurd - Cat Lady vs. Horse Lady from Boston Herald Cat Lady v. Horse Lady God Bless the Boston Herald. No one...03/17/2005: Fraud & Conspiracy - The Age of Missing Information from Slate Steven Aftergood is Director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation...03/16/2005: Arcanum - Bill Weld: Still Kickin' It from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation William F. Weld Imagine my surprise and delight when the visage...03/15/2005: Criminally Absurd - $14.6B Does Not Go As Far As It Used To from CNN The independent engineering specialist who led an investigation...03/10/2005: Fraud & Conspiracy - Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction? from UPI A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam...03/08/2005: Technologica - A Primate Party Gone Horribly Awry from Los Angeles Times A West Covina, CA couple who had raised a chimp...03/05/2005: Arcanum - CBC's Sick Sense Of Humor from CBC The National A CBC story on the tragic death of 4 RCMP officers...03/02/2005: Asshat of the Week - Man Tasered By Police In Salad Bar Dispute At Chuck E. Cheese from The Denver Channel AURORA, Colo. -- Aurora...03/02/2005: Nauru - Facts About Nauru You May Not Have Known from the Belfast Telegraph This Pacific Island nation, only 21sq km in...03/31/2004: That's Entertainment? - athenaeum launches save nwi website from athenaeum in repsonse to the massive out cry of support for Newsworld International, the...03/31/2004: Nauru - Nauruwire.org Somehow I think we may have missed this site before. Nauruwire.org is a site run by people from Australia...03/31/2004: Technologica - I for one, would like to welcome our diminutive dancing Robot Overlords from Sony Those crazy Japanese, what will they...03/31/2004: That's Entertainment? - NOOOOOOOO! Dept. or Al Gore Stole My News Channel from the New York Observer The Observer has learned that former...03/30/2004: Arcanum - California Announces First Energy Crisis of the Year Is California showing us the first signs of an approaching "Dark Age?...03/30/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Revenge of the Jumping Carp from Washington Post [reprinted] In a stunning development, Snakehead, the Carnivorous Landwalking Fish, now has...03/30/2004: Technologica - Athenaeum Restored from The Distributed-Denial-of-Sleep-Team at Dreamhost referred by alert reader Kilik At this time, all network services have been...03/30/2004: Nauru - Nauru: Piled High With Beer Cans from AP According to the UN, "[t]he shoreline of the Pacific isle of Nauru...03/30/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Empirical data on file-sharing's effect on album sales found at BoingBoing Koleman Strumpf, a conservative, Cato-affiliated economist at the University...03/30/2004: Criminally Absurd - Slave descendants file $1 billion suit against corporations from The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) Descendants of slaves filed a...03/27/2004: Technologica - The Bernal Sphere Circa 1990 2060? A 1977 futurists take on a space station he predicted for the 1990s...03/27/2004: Criminally Absurd - Court Opens Door To Searches Without Warrants Circa 1984 from WDSU New Orleans NEW ORLEANS -- It's a groundbreaking court...03/27/2004: Urban Archaeology - It's not really urban archaeology, but it requires a good dig Picking your nose and eating it is good for...03/26/2004: Breaking News - Senate passes bill making fetus a separate victim in crimes against women from Yahoo! News WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US...03/25/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - "Scientists" trapped in cave turn down rescue offers from CNN (CNN) - Mexican President Vicente Fox said Wednesday he wants...03/25/2004: Technologica - Bow before your new Robot Overlord from Yahpoo TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese company unveiled a 11.55-foot tall robot that...03/25/2004: Technologica - End of Starcade Re-Runs? Comcast Agrees to Purchase TechTV, Merge With G4 from Commiecast Is Starcade going to go off...03/24/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Jesse Ventura Speaks Out For Gay Marriage Rights from Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise Former Navy Seal, WWF Champ, Governor of...03/23/2004: Technologica - ATM Fix Everything from Midnight Spaghetti and the Chocolate G-String via Slashdot click to enlarge The Scene: Carnegie Mellon University...03/23/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Better Plead The Fourth, Cause You Can't Plead The First from Timothy Lynch, The Cato Institute submitted by alert reader...03/22/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Bipartisanship with productive ends aka probably the only protest-proof government initiative No, you aren't dreaming; the two largest parties in...03/22/2004: (Low) Technologica - Non-electric refrigerator inventor wins Rolex Award from The Rolex Awards for Enterprise This is Mohammed Bah Abba's Pot-in-pot invention. In...03/22/2004: That's Entertainment? - Doctor Who Has A Posse Dept.- The new Doctor is in thanks to everyone who emailed me the article! The...03/21/2004: Criminally Absurd - Christians Try To Censor Georgia School's Reading List from WSB-TV Atlanta CARTERSVILLE, Ga. -- Some Christian parents in Georgia want...03/19/2004: Criminally Absurd - Let's Hear it for the Boys in Blue The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that a local man, Conrad Malsom, who...03/19/2004: Arcanum - Happy Anniversary, C-SPAN Congressional Surveillance, Policing Activity Network turns 25 today As many other athenaetors will attest, Congressional surveillance network...03/18/2004: Arcanum - The Ambition Tax: Why America's young are being crushed by debt-and why no one seems to care by Brendan I...03/18/2004: Criminally Absurd - The British Legal System of Mixed Common and Roman Law Has Been Used to Enslave US(A) from Barefoot's World submitted...03/17/2004: Technologica - Guinness record for world's smallest disk drive No penis jokes please Reuters by way of CNN TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -...03/16/2004: Criminally Absurd - Stalinist Killer Crabs from Kamchatka! More than 50 years after his death, Uncle Joe continues to wreak havoc on eastern...03/16/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - EBay Auction: Imaginary Foreign Leader Endorsement Caught in a Presidential race lie? I'll cover for you! Have you ever been...03/16/2004: That's Entertainment? - THUGONOMICS BEAATCCHHH from Boston Globe West Tisbury native John Cena HAVERHILL -- Pro wrestling star John Cena toyed with his...03/16/2004: Technologica - Leading ISP's Oppose Passage of Spyware Control Act from Mediapost via slashdot While the Internet community anxiously waits to see...03/16/2004: Arcanum - Ayn Rand Institute on "The Passion of The Christ" or, Preaching To The Converted from ARI submitted by alert reader...03/16/2004: Arcanum - gr33n5p@n @t b0570n c0ll3g3 from The Heights [BC Student Newspaper] Boston College hosted a number of prominent economic, business, and...03/16/2004: Technologica - It's Oort there . . . mystery of Sedna grows from The Australian IT'S red, round and out there. But...03/16/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - The Selective Draft: We Don't Need Cannon Fodder, Just The Best And Brightest I came across a story on the...03/15/2004: Breaking News - Origin of Species By Thomas Friedman, NY Times Op-Ed [retinal scan required] Nandan Nilekani, C.E.O. of the Indian software giant...03/15/2004: Breaking News - Cast your eye not on OPEC, but on yourself from undisclosed source Energy prices. We questioned last week why we...03/15/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Life of A Minor Leaguer from KJZZ (Public Radio station in Mesa, AZ.) If some of you were lucky enough...03/15/2004: Criminally Absurd - Asshat of the Week Nominee: William Cottrell A few weeks ago, Abe Froman and I were watching a Fox 25...03/15/2004: Breaking News - Patriot Act Cause Of More Outsourcing? note the "more" and "?" before you begin character assasination of me from Dwinell...03/15/2004: Criminally Absurd - The Lurking Threat: Dihydrogen Monoxide from AP reprinted ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -- City officials were so concerned about the potentially...03/15/2004: Arcanum - Attack of the Zombie Robo-Lobsters! from AP reprinted BOSTON -- Call it cryonics for crustaceans. A Connecticut company says its...03/15/2004: Breaking News - Spain Surrenders from Washington Post reprinted MADRID - Spaniards voted yesterday to remove the party of Prime Minister Jose Maria...03/13/2004: Technologica - save prof_booty from chrisperkins552003 click here to save prof_booty i need an A in my web app class, and you...03/13/2004: Technologica - Plugging into the power of sewage from New Scientist The waste you flush down the toilet could one day power...03/12/2004: Technologica - prof_booty & awiggins crash the athenaeum from athenaeum drinking and coding don't mix...03/12/2004: That's Entertainment? - Biggest achievement ever: Spawning off an FCC investigation of everything. Second biggest achievement ever... Janet...thanks for this one. On such...03/12/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Follow Up : The men behind the 'Guinean plot' from BBC BBC News Online looks at what is known about...03/12/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - My Congressman is an Asshat; Or F-Markey I was listening to Howard Stern this morning and he mentioned that Ed...03/12/2004: Breaking News - Madrid Investigation Yields Contradictory Evidence from Control Risks Group [subscription required] My first thought after the Oklahoma City bombing was...03/12/2004: Breaking News - S. Korea parliament impeaches president from AP I did not have sexual relations with that woman SEOUL, South Korea -...03/12/2004: Criminally Absurd - Church Criticizes Red Sox Good Friday "Oversight" from AP reprinted BOSTON -- Opening Day ticket holders at Boston's Fenway Park...03/12/2004: Criminally Absurd - Judge overrules Sasquatch defense from Bennington Banner VT udge squashes Sasquatch questions By JOHN LeMAY, Staff Writer BENNINGTON -- A...03/12/2004: Criminally Absurd - Eye-opener: Motorists spot X-rated movies playing in other drivers' cars from AP reprinted DETROIT (AP) - Andrea Carlton hadn't planned...03/12/2004: Breaking News - Stormin' Norman: Learn to Drive and More from WHDH-TV Driver's Ed teachers are often among the most pathetic lot out...03/11/2004: Asshat of the Week - Greenville Man Sues for Alleged Scalding by Frank Recchia, Channel 7 Spartanburg, SC A Greenville man wants a whopper-sized bite...03/11/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - gr335p@n's con job? from The Nation referred by alert reader Thomas Pain(e) It is not exactly that he lies, but...03/10/2004: Technologica - Defense Computer Forensics Lab: Terabytes of Evidence from NetworkWorldFusion Whenever U.S. government agencies investigating a crime or a cybercrime has...03/10/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - ICANN's tongue slithers further up Verisign's foetid backside ICANN Board Approves Controversial Domain Name Service by way of Cory Doctrow...03/10/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - EFF is suing the FCC over the Broadcast Flag! by Corry Doctrow at Boing Boing W00H00! EFF is suing the...03/10/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Follow Up: Zimbabwe Details Nationalities of 'Mercenaries' from Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe said on Tuesday 64 men it was...03/10/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Man killed during initiation at Masonic Lodge, fellow member charged with manslaughter from AP reprinted PATCHOGUE, N.Y. (AP) A man...03/09/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Sniper Killer Muhammad Sentenced to Death By Matthew Barakat, Associated Press A judge rejected John Allen Muhammad's insistence of innocence...03/09/2004: Technologica - Testing Einstein's Theory: Relativity Project Has Stretched Over Four Decades from LA Times reprinted Palo Alto, Calif. -- In 1962...03/09/2004: Urban Archaeology - Architect dreams of completing Colosseum By Claire Soares, Reuters The Colosseum will come full circle if one septuagenarian Roman gets...03/09/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Zimbabwe plane ownership still a mystery from Sunday Times (South Africa) Several days ago, a plane was detained in Zimbabwe...03/09/2004: That's Entertainment? - 'Idol' Reject Hung Has Recording Deal Cross-reference Criminally Absurd from The Associated Press NEW YORK - Who needs "American Idol"...03/09/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - US Counterterror Efforts In East Africa from NPR & East African Standard Things seem to be heating up in globar...03/09/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - "Drastic" Changes Seen In Domestic Military Operations according to JAG Handbook from FAS Project on Govt Secrecy In the absence...03/09/2004: That's Entertainment? - The Gray Album: What's The Dilly, Yo? Recently, I have had an opportunity to listen to the so- called "Gray...03/09/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - MoveOn.org dicksmacked by McCain-Feingold or, turnabout-is-fair-play via CNN: The Republican National Committee is warning television stations across the country not...03/09/2004: Technologica - Do We Get Enough In Innovation for What We Give to Microsoft? from Wall St. Journal It's 2004; do you...03/09/2004: That's Entertainment? - Editorial: Low-Power Radio from LA Times reprinted Though its decisions influence what Americans hear and often what they think, the...03/09/2004: Breaking News - Boy Scouts rescued after Utah avalanche from The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY -- A huge wall of snow collapsed...03/08/2004: Arcanum - Non impediti ratione cogitatonis translated: Unencumbered by the thought process from MIT I'm a big fan of Car Talk ...03/08/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - House prepares for ‘cheeseburger bill' by Judy Holland, Helena Independent Record WASHINGTON - Congress is poised to tell fat Americans...03/08/2004: Technologica - UC Berkeley researchers developing robotic exoskeleton that can enhance human strength and endurance from UC Berkly News "We set out...03/08/2004: Arcanum - Death rite unnerves Romanian EU bid byTom Mulligan, BBC Haunted by "strigoi" - the undead - villagers on the slopes...03/08/2004: Criminally Absurd - Chavez Warns U.S. Against Invading or Could somebody pass the bug spray? from The Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela - President...03/07/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - b is for booty from prof_booty mr. gorbachev: tear down this funky dance floor nanosounds records is proud to once...03/07/2004: Urban Archaeology - Urban Archeology in Rotterdam While doing research for my next novel, I happened upon this wonderful site , which while...03/05/2004: Arcanum - Money, Gold and the Great Depression Federal Reserve referred by Deep Throat Fed Reserve Governor Ben S. Bernanke gave a...03/05/2004: That's Entertainment? - Bloggers' Plagiarism Scientifically Proven stolen from Slashdot , who got it from Wired , who got it from... Using newly...03/05/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Unreal Tournament 2004 Goes Gold from the people who brought you Pong LOS ANGELES – March 4, 2004 – Atari...03/05/2004: Technologica - Chameleon Card Changes Stripes By Mark Baard, Wired Your next wallet may be 8 mm thick and contain the only...03/05/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - "I want to fight the wussification of the state of Texas." Front man for the country music group 'The Texas...03/05/2004: Nauru - Aid Package for Nauru, Relations With Iceland from Radio Australia & Pacnews The Australian government announced that it will provide...03/04/2004: Technologica - UK Government backs quantum cryptography from Vunet (UK) The government is putting its weight behind quantum cryptography as a key...03/03/2004: Criminally Absurd - The Transplanted Texan notes that, if you think America has censorship woes because of Janet Jackson and the FCC, it...03/03/2004: Criminally Absurd - Does the GAO cook the books? from the "let he who is without sin" dept. The US General Accounting Office...03/03/2004: Arcanum - Dead Cat Bounce What's going on with the greenback? from undisclosed source The dollar had been weak for weeks. Actually...03/03/2004: Technologica - The Vealing Of America: Wisconsin Virtual Academy The vealing of America has taken another step towards completion with the creation...03/03/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Ski Free or Die Killington Votes To Rejoin Granite State from Manchester Union Leader KILLINGTON, Vt. - Nearly 2˝ centuries...03/03/2004: Criminally Absurd - Follow Up : McDonald's to dump super-size portions from AP CHICAGO -- Hold the fries -- at least the super-sized...03/03/2004: Breaking News - New bill would relax New York's smoking ban Air-filtration system could exempt bars from Binghamton Sun & Bulletin ALBANY -...03/02/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Drunken Polish nun crashes her tractor from Agence France Presse WARSAW (AFP) - A Benedictine nun could lose her driving...03/02/2004: Breaking News - Mission Accomplished: NASA finds strong evidence of Mars' Watery Past News outlets are buzzing at this hour, and NASA is...03/02/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - RFID tags in cash? Welcome to 1984 from Prison Planet via Slashdot Money to burn? Click to enlarge RFID Tags...03/01/2004: Criminally Absurd - Continuing Coverage of Boobiegate from The Smoking Gun With today marking the one-month anniversary of Janet Jackson's Super Bowl, um...03/01/2004: Technologica - Why [registration required] appears on some of our sources from Wired When Kelly Dyer first considered requiring readers of the...03/01/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Aristide Tells U.S. Contacts He Was Abducted or Haiti, the Nauru of the west from Reuters Jean-Bertrand Aristide, ousted as...03/01/2004: Breaking News - Iraqi Constitution from Control Risks Group [subscription required] The Iraqi Governing Council on 1 March agreed a basic law that...03/01/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - 'Lord of the Rings' Sweeps Oscars By David Germain, Associated Press They slew beasts, toppled tyrants and destroyed a ring...